Selfie for a cause

The selfie is not a new phenomenon. In fact, its history dates back to September 2002, when Australian citizen Nathan Hope uploaded a ‘self-photograph’ on an online forum. The picture showed Hope’s swollen lower lip with some stitches because of a small accident at a friend’s 21st birthday party. With the picture, he wrote, “And sorry about the focus, it was a selfie”. From then on, selfies became all the rage. Today, almost everyone—from world leaders t